I just gotta show you a couple of really cool sites done in Shockwave that have helped me keep my sanity the last couple of weeks.

www.spikything.com (the crab-ball game is my favorite)
game.thefa.com

Sorry, that’s all the time I have to post right now.

I’m really upset with myself that I don’t make the time to post here more often. Seems like when I do find the time, it’s only for a couple of minutes (not enough to go into details) or it’s late like now and I’m just plain tired. It’s quite a shame (for me that is) because I have so much going on right now and I want so bad to write about it. Oh well. Let’s see how long I can write before I get too tired.

I had this amazing dream the other night about waking up and finding myself about 4-5 years in my past. I know exactly how I thought up this dream, but that’s not important right now. In the dream, I wake up in my room back at my parent’s house. This was during a time that I like to call Richie v2.0.

I like to relate my life to computer software simply because that’s what makes sense to me. Richie v1.0 started from about the beginning of high school to about 2 years after high school graduation. Anytime before that were betas of what eventually became v1.0. Richie v1.0 was a time when I simply didn’t care much about anything. Major goof off time in school and at home. Getting into a lot of trouble left and right. Living with the parents. No responsibilities. No future.

Richie v2.0 starts where v1.0 left off and goes up to about 6 months ago. It was during this time when I was able to find my drive and inspiration. I met people that made me want to be a better person. I decided to get my ass to a real college and find a real career. Moved out on my own and took on a lot of responsibility. I grew up a lot personally and professionally. Towards the end of that time though (like any other piece of software), I became old, outdated, and eventually lost a lot of my self worth. I got sloppy and made a lot of mistakes. Time for another revision.

In pops beta stages for Rich v3.0. Notice the name update too. A little older. A little wiser. Still making some mistakes, but learning from those (and all of the past ones) a lot quicker now. On my way to a final version very soon. Not exactly sure where things will take me but I do know I’m going to stabilize some instabilities in my life. Overall a gigantic improvement over late stages of v2.0.

Talk about a tangent. I wanted to tell you about a dream I had. Instead, I go on about how my life is like software. Oh well. I’m tired now and I want to go to sleep, but I’ll make sure to come back soon and post about my dream. Until then, be good humans.

Despite what you may be thinking (or wishing), I’m not dead. These past 2 weeks have been some of the most stressful weeks I’ve had in my life and I can’t wait to get home tonight. There’s much to tell but I’m going to wait until I get home to write about it. I finally have something personal to say.

Until then, let me tell you a little about my lunch. Long story short, four of us leave and don’t come back for three hours. We knew we were gonna get shit from the bosses when we got back, so we started thinking about the story to tell them. About 2 blocks away, someone (I can’t remember who) gets this great idea. We pull over and turn off the car. Three of us get out and start pushing while the other person steers it back to work for a block and a half. We’re all laughing our asses off and knew this wasn’t going to work. Still, it was going to be funny enough to soften the blow. We push it into a spot. Someone comes out saying it’s time to buy a new car (the car is like 2 weeks old). We tell them we ran out of gas (still laughing our asses off). Well, after we get in, two of us are called up for a scheduled meeting. We’re asked about the “car problems” after we get upstairs. I thought everyone already thought we were joking. Unfortunately, my friend came up with this elaborate story about how we went to lunch and ran out of gas coming back. I’m resting my head in my hands trying not to laugh. They believe it and even start to tell us where we could find empty gas cans in the building that we can use to go buy gas afterwards. No turning back anymore. Now we have to sell it. So now it’s after the meeting. Two of the guys are getting ready to go to the gas station with those cans to go buy gas and bring it back to put into a car that is full of gas already. Good times.

What have I been trying to accomplish with this blog? Recently, I’ve had several people ask me this. Some even became aggressively angry that I’ve shown no direction. Some laughed and said everything I’m doing is pointless. I’ve been going throughout the last week or so trying to come up with an answer to this question. It’s probably the reason for the ever growing lackluster posts. Originally, the concept was interesting and it seemed like a good place to vent when I needed to. A mental and techincal challenge to boot. Looking over some of my past posts, I see that I haven’t really established any kind of theme, hence, the confusion with the readers (the few there are). But I awoke from a nap this afternoon and suddenly I realized something.

You don’t have a f*cking clue. I’m not here trying to evoke some sort of feeling from you. If I do, well then that’s a nice perk for me, but it’s not my goal to entertain. I’m here because I don’t mind sharing certain things and even though it looks like there’s no direction right now, I do have a general plan.

I’m not breaking into your homes and setting your default page to my site. No one is forcing you to visit. I could care less if you do. What I do care about are the pointless comments the ignorant nutless assholes make (both anonymously and known). All it takes is one to start it and the rest of the sheep follow. Because of that, I’ve been forced to turn the option off for you to comment all together. You want to post some feedback? Great! Here’s the way to do it. Start your own blog and see what comes of it. I mean that’s the whole point to these things, right? So that even the common thoughtless bastards like you and I have a public place to throw things out into the open. You don’t like my nonsense? Go make your own.

Ok, so i’ve definitely gotten off track already in the month and a half that I’ve started this, and I want to change that. I want to turn it back into something personal for me. A venting ground and place to reference my past thoughts. No more beating down random bums in a drunken frenzy at 3 ‘o clock in the morning. This is my outlet for anything and everything. That is, after all, what a journal is, right? You’re invited to look over my shoulder and view if you want and I’ll be happy to read your thought out responses on your own forum. Most likely that wont happen because the people who are making the comments don’t really care either way, in which case I, in turn, don’t care what you think.

My God, I’m rambling. Where is this all going? Beats the hell out of you I’m sure. All that matters, though, is that I know where it’s going. Good luck to us all…

I know. It’s been awhile since I actually wrote anything on here worth reading. Do I care? No. I’ve been plenty busy doing a lot of thing and when I’ve had free time, I’ve been out in the sun. In fact, some friends and I all went out to the beach today. Nothing really interesting, but I’m going to talk about it anyway.

I was up until 3am or so last night playing GameCube so it was quite a chore getting up at 10am, but I did. Met up with my friends and then found out we were actually gonna go way out of the way to pick up some girl that my friend met online. Ok, so now instead of a 30 minute drive to the beach, we’re taking a 2 hour trip to Orange County to pick up some girl no one has ever seen before. I figure it will be worth it if she’s hot. Unfortunately , this wasn’t the case. Her face looked like someone kept hitting it with a bag of nickels or something. She made some comment at the beach like, “I don’t know if I should go in the water or stay out here and look pretty.” Girl, if those are your only 2 options, you better get your ass in the water. So I go body boarding and do a little tanning before we pack up and head over to the nearest bar to catch the Lakers game. We finished early and headed home to catch the last quarter. What a game! It goes into overtime and we win it there. Quite exciting stuff. I’m not a big basketball fan, but how can you not get into it when your home team is about to win its 3rd NBA championship in a row.

Anyway, it’s been a quite a long day and I’m tired now, so it’s off to bed for me. I can’t tell you how much I’m not looking forward to work tomorrow.

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I don’t know how I forgot about it, but I did. My 30-day trial period with Radio UserLand expired today and I was greeted with a blank screen asking me for a serial number when I started the program. No problem. There was no doubt in my mind that I was going to buy it. $39.95 is a steal for it so I was happy to throw in my credit card info and get myself back up and running. I’ve actually been working a lot this week on my new interface so I can get rid of the default one. More to come soon… hopefully.

I was fudging around on the net and came across a review I posted on DP Review awhile ago for my Nikon CoolPix 5000, so I posted it here.

You know the week is going to be bad when you’re already asking yourself this question on a Monday. Actually, there’s a couple of great things to look forward to this week.

A lot of good season finales are on this week. The X-Files series finale was last night and it was a very good ending to a great series. The next movie should be released around this time next year. 24‘s finale is tomorrow. I hope so much that betraying bitch Nina gets her ass killed. The Felicity series finale is on this Wednesday. This is simply the best series to EVER touch network television and I can even explain how upset I am to see it leave, but I’m very thankful I was able to see it from start to finish.

A couple of good DVD releases too this week. First there’s Vanilla Sky. I haven’t seen this movie yet and have heard mixed reactions from it, but I still can’t wait to see it. Tom Cruise is da man (not is a homosexual way either)! Then there’s the Memento Limited Edition DVD. I already have the normal version on DVD that came out last year, but I still can’t pass this up. It was easily my favorite movie of last year.

And then, of course, there is E3 to look forward to at the end of the week. Anything and everything having to do with video games is going to be there. You can only get if you work in a related industry. I specifically took a day off on Friday to go to the show all day at the Los Angeles Convention Center because I couldn’t justify to my work that it would benefit us as a company if I played games all day. It’s quite exciting and going to be very fun.